SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- B-2 BEYOND LINE OF SIGHT (BLOS) PROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 5/14/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- ESC/DIV, 45 Arnold Street (Building 1600), Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2102
- ZIP Code
- 01731-2102
- Solicitation Number
- F19628-03-R-0054
- Response Due
- 8/14/2003
- Archive Date
- 8/14/2003
- Point of Contact
- Kent Kinal, Contracting Officer, 781-377-1273, Kent.Kinal@hanscom.af.mil
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Click Here to E-mail the POC
(jeffrey.wong@hanscom.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION (NOCA). The overall objective of the B-2 Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) program is to provide the B-2 bomber, Link-16 Situational Awareness (SA) BLOS B-2 capability. The B-2 BLOS program shall provide SA to the flight deck via satellite reception of Link-16 data from networks beyond the horizon. This announcement constitutes a notice to all potential offerors that, on or about 26 May, 2003, the Tactical Data Links System Program Office, Gateways Division (TDL) anticipates the release on the HERBB website (www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil) of a Request for Proposal for the B-2 BLOS program. The overall objective of the B-2 BLOS program is to provide the B-2 Bomber, Link-16 Situational Awareness (SA) BLOS. The B-2 BLOS system will be acquired using a split submission of proposals. A technical demonstration of proposed systems will be conducted at Hanscom AFB, MA tentatively the week of 23 Jun 03. Offerors will be required to submit a technical proposal with ROM as well as the technical demonstration of the proposed system. The government reserves the right to award without discussion. Throughout this process, the offeror is free to submit change pages to the technical proposal, which in fact is the intent of this split submission process. As the government is going through the evaluation and demonstration/oral presentation part of this process and talking and interacting with the Offerors, the Offerors themselves should be updating and refining their technical proposal. When the government has finished its "extended market survey", each offeror will be asked to submit a complete proposal; e.g. any final change pages to its technical proposal, and a full cost proposal based on the final version of its technical proposal. The contract will be a cost type contract with an estimated value of less than $3M. The B-2 BLOS program shall provide SA to the flight deck via satellite reception of Link-16 data from networks beyond the horizon. This capability will be met by the Offerors' provision of software that will allow receipt of J-series messages. The software must have an interface to the PRC-117 SATCOM radio, support an interface to FALCONVIEW software, ability to receive Satellite TADIL J (Mil-Std 6016B) and Mil-Std 3011 App. A protocols, and must accept GPS position/timing information. The system must support the B-2 Situational Awareness and Communications Upgrade (SACU). Offerors will be provided 30 days from official release to respond to the RFP with the technical proposal. Telephone requests for the RFP will not be accepted. Firms responding to this request shall indicate whether they are a large business, small business, very small business, small-disadvantaged business, 8(a) concern, women-owned business, HUBZone small business, veteran-owned small business, or service-disabled veteran-owned small business. Respondents must specify whether they are a U.S. or foreign-owned firm. Interested Contractors desiring to do business with the Air Force shall be registered in the DoD Central Contracting Reporting System. This NOCA does not constitute a Request for Proposal, and it does not restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach, nor should it be construed as a commitment by the Government. Contractors are reminded and cautioned that only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government. Interested Contractors who have Advisory and Assistance Services contracts and also support ESC/DIV are put on notice that you may have a potential Organizational Conflict of Interest. If you desire to submit a proposal in response to the above RFP, an OCI mitigation plan will be required. This plan will be evaluated to determine if an actual OCI exists and whether sufficient safeguards exist to make you eligible for award. Failure to submit such plan may make you ineligible for award. Please direct any questions on this NOCA to ESC/DIVG, 45 Arnold Street, Hanscom AFB MA 01731-2103, Attn: Mr. Kent Kinal, Contracting Officer (tel: 781-377-1273, e-mail: kent.kinal@hanscom.af.mil) or Mr. Jeff Wong, Contracts Manager (tel: 781-377-2326, e-mail: Jeffrey.wong@hanscom.af.mil). The Government anticipates a Request for Proposal release on or about May 26, 2003 with a contract award on or about July 11, 2003.
- Web Link
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ESC Business Opportunities Web Page
(http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil)
- Place of Performance
- Address: N/A
- Zip Code: N/A
- Country: N/A
- Zip Code: N/A
- Record
- SN00323904-W 20030516/030514213414 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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